The charity Jericho House, which helps men in Derby and Derbyshire with drug and alcohol addiction recovery, welcomed ICB chair Kathy McLean this week for a tour of their nine-bed residential house.
By Neil Taylor, Senior Intelligence Manger at the Integrated Care BoardThe role of analysts in health and social care is changing.For a long time, we have been working in the background on a range of dashboards evaluating key metrics against our system’s delivery.But now there is a movement which recognises data-led decision making as the […]
Dr Kathy McLean, Chair of Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board, has been back to the floor, visiting volunteers and staff at not-for-profit organisation Connected Perinatal, who support new parents.
Women across Derby and Derbyshire are being asked to give their views and help contribute towards improved health services.
GP practices in Derbyshire are providing tens of thousands more appointments for patients than five years ago, while patient satisfaction levels remain high, latest analysis has shown.
Worldwide guidance on patient safety is being implemented – with the support of a former GP from Derbyshire.
People across Derby and Derbyshire are being invited to have their say over the way fertility treatments are provided in the East Midlands.
By Dr Richard Fitton, retired Derbyshire GP and contributor to the World Health Organization’s Patient Safety Charter I became interested in sharing records with patients during the 1980s while working in an inner-city practice – an area of moderate deprivation. Our patients died six or seven years earlier than patients who used the same health […]
Blog by Shahzad Khan, Pharmacist in Chesterfield We all get minor illnesses from time to time and if, like me, you can’t wait to get better, you’ll want to find the quickest way to recovery. The good news is that pharmacists can help with more of these illnesses than ever before. This week is ‘Ask […]
The ICB’s deputy chief executive Michelle Arrowsmith visited a Chesterfield dental practice to discuss the challenges and opportunities of expanding dental provision in Derbyshire.